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Starch Grain and Phytolith Evidence for Early Ninth Millennium B.P. Maize Starch grain and phytolith evidence for early ninth SEE COMMENTARY millennium B.P. maize from the Central Balsas River Valley, Mexico Dolores R. Pipernoa,b,1, Anthony J. Ranereb,c, Irene Holstb, Jose Iriarted, and Ruth Dickauc aArchaeobiology Program, Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC 20560 ; bSmithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado Postal 0843-03092, Balboa, Republic of Panama; cDepartment of Anthropology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122; and dDepartment of Archaeology, School of Geography, Archaeology, and Earth Resources, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QJ, United Kingdom Edited by Jeremy A. Sabloff, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA, and approved January 23, 2009 (received for review December 9, 2008) Questions that still surround the origin and early dispersals of maize lower montane (low mountain) forest occurs at 1,200 m, when oaks (Zea mays L.) result in large part from the absence of information on and other cooler-loving elements become a part of the flora (5). its early history from the Balsas River Valley of tropical southwestern We focused our analyses on starch grains and phytoliths, which Mexico, where its wild ancestor is native. We report starch grain and are effective indicators of wild and domesticated maize and phytolith data from the Xihuatoxtla shelter, located in the Central squash remains in archaeological contexts (6–14). As is common Balsas Valley, that indicate that maize was present by 8,700 calen- in other tropical regions (6, 7, 10–13), the preservation of drical years ago (cal. B.P.). Phytolith data also indicate an early macrofossil plant remains was very poor, consisting of wood preceramic presence of a domesticated species of squash, possibly charcoal and a few unidentified seed fragments. The site’s Cucurbita argyrosperma. The starch and phytolith data also allow an sediments were similarly barren of pollen, which in any case evaluation of current hypotheses about how early maize was used, cannot achieve a confident separation of maize and teosinte, and provide evidence as to the tempo and timing of human selection because substantial overlap in both pollen size and morphology pressure on 2 major domestication genes in Zea and Cucurbita. Our occurs between maize and many wild members of the genus Zea, data confirm an early Holocene chronology for maize domestication including Balsas teosinte (9). This paper focuses on the evidence that has been previously indicated by archaeological and paleoeco- attesting to the utilization of Zea and Cucurbita. Information on the logical phytolith, starch grain, and pollen data from south of Mexico, other plants represented in the starch grain and phytolith records and reshift the focus back to an origin in the seasonal tropical forest is provided in supporting information (SI) Materials and Methods. rather than in the semiarid highlands. Starch grain analysis was performed on a total of 21 ground stone and 5 chipped stone tools. A total of 21 sediment samples early Holocene ͉ maize domestication ͉ phytoliths ͉ starch grains were analyzed for phytoliths. Nine of these samples were ob- tained in 10-cm increments as a column sample from the north nvestigations at the Xihuatoxtla shelter in Guerrero, Mexico wall of unit 1 of the excavations (see Fig. 3 in ref. 1). Twelve Ihave uncovered a long sequence of human occupation begin- samples were directly associated with ground stone tools from ning during the early Holocene (1). The stratigraphy, chronol- units 1 and 2, occurring immediately beneath and within 5–10 cm ogy, and other characteristics of this site have been described of the artifacts (1). Phytoliths also were recovered from the previously (1). To study the history of plant exploitation and surfaces of these artifacts during starch grain analysis. Proce- cultivation, we carried out phytolith and starch grain studies of dures for micofossil study followed standard methods (see sediments and stone tools recovered from preceramic and Materials and Methods). Identification was based on large mod- ceramic levels that clearly represent an undisturbed sequence of ern reference collections of wild and domesticated taxa native to deposition (1). This research is the first to examine early plant Mexico and elsewhere in tropical America that are housed in use in the deciduous or seasonal tropical forests of the Central DRP’s laboratory (see SI Materials and Methods). Balsas watershed of Mexico, where the wild progenitors of maize (Zea mays ssp. parviglumis Iltis and Doebley or Balsas teosinte) Results and Cucurbita argyrosperma Huber, the important ‘‘silver Starch Grain Studies. Starch grains were recovered from 19 of the seeded’’ squash [C. argyrosperma Huber ssp. sororia (L.H. grinding stones and 3 of the chipped stone tools. Maize was the Bailey) Merrick and Bates], along with important tree crops, dominant starch type on every tool, accounting for 90% of all such as Leucaena spp. and Spondias spp., are members of the grains recovered (Table 1; Fig. 1). Previous research has dem- natural flora (1–4). onstrated that starch grain size and morphology are of significant The vegetation and climate of the study region have been utility for differentiating maize from wild grasses native to described in detail elsewhere (5; see also ref. 1). In brief, the North, Central, and South America (6–8, 10, 13) (see also SI climate is classified as Ko¨ppen Aw (tropical wet and dry). The Materials and Methods and Table S1). Our work in Mexico average annual temperature is 27 °C, and the average annual required a good understanding of starch grain characteristics in precipitation is approximately 1,100 mm. As in much of the wild Zea, represented by 4 species and 3 subspecies of teosinte Central Balsas region, the potential vegetation is tropical decid- uous (seasonal) forest, which is still found in remnants in areas removed from human population concentrations. Our vegeta- Author contributions: D.R.P. and I.H. designed research; D.R.P., A.J.R., I.H., J.I., and R.D. tion surveys indicate that the floral composition and structure of performed research; D.R.P., I.H., and J.I. analyzed data; and D.R.P. wrote the paper. these forests is typical of low-elevation deciduous forest found in The authors declare no conflict of interest. other similar regions of the seasonal tropics in Mexico and This article is a PNAS Direct Submission. Central America (5). Paleoecological research carried out on a See Commentary on page 4957. series of lakes and swamps near the archeological sites indicates 1To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: [email protected]. that similar forests have occupied the region since the beginning of This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/ ANTHROPOLOGY the Holocene Period (5). In the present vegetation, a change to 0812525106/DCSupplemental. www.pnas.org͞cgi͞doi͞10.1073͞pnas.0812525106 PNAS ͉ March 31, 2009 ͉ vol. 106 ͉ no. 13 ͉ 5019–5024 Downloaded by guest on September 25, 2021 Table 1. Cucurbita and maize cob phytoliths and maize starch grains from Xihuatoxtla Length of Thickness of Number of Length of Number of Cucurbita Cucurbita Cucurbita maize starch maize starch Provenience, cm below phytoliths, ␮m, phytoliths, ␮m, phytoliths grains, ␮m, grains surface/ layer mean (range) mean (range) measured mean (range) measured Maize cob phytoliths Column sample Unit 1, 325a, 0–20/A/B 50 1 NA WT ϩ Cob-type Unit 1, 325b, 20–40/B 0 NA WT ϩ RT ϩ Cob-type Unit 1, 325c, 40–48/B 0 NA Cob-type Unit 1, 325d, 49–54/C 65 (59–72) 53 (45–58) 7, 3 NA Cob-type Unit 1, 325e, 54–60/C 61 (47–87) 47 (40–54) 4, 2 NA WT ϩ Cob-type Unit 1, 325f, 60–65/D 80 (54–106) 59 12, 1 NA WT ϩ Cob-type Unit 1, 325 g, 65–75/D/E 73 (36–108) 55 (30–84) 62, 27 NA RT ϩ Cob-type Unit 1, 325 h, 80–90/E 51 (42–60) 2 NA None (phytoliths uncommon) Grinding stones and associated sediments Unit 1, 310a, 30–35/B NA 15 (12–20) 6 Stone, 0; sediments, NA Unit 1, 312a, 40–45/B NA 16 1 Stone, 0; sediments, NA Unit 1, 314c, 50–55/C 54 1 14 (10–20) 11 Stone, cob-type; sediments, cob-type Unit 1, 315c, 57/C 56 (47–61) 48 3, 1 17 (12–24) 18 Stone, cob-type; sediments, cob-type Unit 1, 316c, 60–65/D 59 (45–87) 48 (39–61) 29,16 15 (14–16) 2 Stone, WT ϩ cob-type; sediments, 0 Unit 1, 316d, 60–67 cm/D NA 16 (6–24) 68 Unit 1, 318d, 70–75/E 53 (41–75) 41 (32–64) 28, 10 17 (12–26) 22 Stone, RT ϩ cob-type; sediments, RT ϩ cob-type Unit 1, 318e, 70–75/E 69 (48–100) 53 (40–84) 29, 15 16 (8–24) 80 Stone, cob-type; sediments, 0 Unit 1, 319d, 78/E 59 (36–120) 36 (27–48) 37, 8 16 (12–24) 8 Stone, cob-type; sediments, RT ϩ cob-type Unit 1, 322c, 85–90/E 53 (41–75) 29 7, 1 18 (12–24) 11 Stone, cob-type; sediments, cob-type Unit 2, 361a, 10–20/B NA 15 (12–20) 3 Stone, cob-type; sediments, NA Unit 2, 362a, 20–30/B NA 17 (10–22) 8 Stone, cob-type; sediments, NA Unit 2, 364a, 45/B NA 19 (12–24) 3 Stone, 0; sediments, NA Unit 2, 365, 45–50/B NA 16 (10–22) 2 Stone, RT; sediments, NA Unit 2, 365a, 49/C 0 16 (10–28) 24 Stone, cob-type; sediments, 0 Unit 2, 365c, 51/C NA 0 Stone, 0; sediments, 0 Unit 2, 365b, 54/C 0 14 (10–18) 5 Stone, 0; sediments, 0 Unit 2, 366a, 57/C 67 1 15 (12–18) 2 Stone, 0; sediments, 0 Unit 2, 367, 55–60/C 0 Stone, 0; sediments, NA Unit 2, 367a, 63/D 0 12 (10–14) 9 Stone, 0; sediments, RT ϩ cob-type Unit 2, 368a, 63/D 0 20 (12–28) 3 Stone, 0; sediments, 0 Chipped stone Unit 1, 308a, 20–25/B NA 14 1 NA Unit 1, 322a, 85–90/E NA 17 (16–18) 4 NA Unit 2, 370, 70–75/E NA 17 (12–24) 8 NA NA, phytolith or starch grain studies were not carried out; WT, wavy-top rondel; RT, ruffle-top rondel.
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